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>> Rescued off the Libyan coast, migrants and refugees numbering more than six and a half thousand pulled to safety and taken to Italy on Monday. It's one of the largest influxes into Italy on a single day, adding to the more than 100,000 who'd made the trip this year.

Last year it was Greece at the frontline with thousands of people arriving daily from Turkey. But numbers there have slowed to about 100 a day, since the EU struck a deal with the Turks to try and shut off their route.

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>> All down and sit, okay?>> That's forced some to instead make the longer, more dangerous trip from North Africa to Italy. Nearly 3,000 people have died making the journey this year alone.